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የ12 ሰው ሕይወት ጠፍቷል፣ 14 ሰው ቆሏል፣ 52 ቤት ተቃጥሏል እንዲሁም ከ1500 ሰዎች በላይ ተፈናቅለዋል ተብሏል።</div>
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በኦሮሚያ ክልል ቡኖ በደሌ ዞን በአምስት ወረዳዎች ሰሞኑን ይደረጉ የነበሩ የተቃውሞ እንቅስቃሴዎች መልካቸውን ቀይረው የአካባቢው ተወላጆች በሆኑና ባልሆኑ ሰዎች ላይ ጥቃት መፈፀሙ ከተለያየ ቦታ ያገኘነው መረጃ ያስረዳል። ከጥቅምት 10 እስከ 11 ባሉት ቀናት ከፍተኛ ረብሻ እንደነበርም ታውቋል።</div>
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የዞን አስተዳደር እንዳስታወቀው በግጭቱ 12 ሰው ሞቷል። 14 ሰው ቆስሏል። 52 መኖሪያ ቤቶች ተቃጥለዋል። ከ1500 በላይ ሰዎች ከመኖሪያ ቀያቸው ተፈናቅለዋል።</div>
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የሞቱትና የቆሰሉት ሰዎች የተለያየ ብሔር ያላቸው ናቸው ተብሏል። ማኅበራዊ ሚዲያ ላይ ይሰራጩ የነበሩት ምስሎች ከሌላ ሀገር የተወሰዱ ናቸው ሲሉ የክልል ባለስልጣናት ገልፀዋል።</div>
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<div class="newsIcons donotprint" style="bottom: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; width: 130px;"><div class="newsIconsdiv" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-right: -15px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left;"></div></div><div class="caption1" style="box-sizing: border-box; left: 4px; position: absolute; top: 4px;"></div><div class="caption1" style="box-sizing: border-box; left: 4px; position: absolute; top: 4px;"></div></div><div class="newstitle" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 15px; margin: -15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;">OROMIA, ETHIOPIA - JULY 18: An outside view of stores after Ethiopian craftsmen shut down their shops to protest against tax regulations in Holeta of the Oromia Regio, Ethiopia on July 18, 2017. ( Minasse Wondimu Hailu - Anadolu Agency )</div><br /><br />
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<div class="article-post-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">By Addis Getachew</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;">ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia</span></span></div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Thousands of businesses remained closed Thursday in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest region, as shopkeepers protested against a new tax.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Small business owners across the region have shuttered their premises since Monday in protest at the tax, which targets businesses with an annual turnover of up to 100,000 Ethiopian birr ($4,300).</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">However, protesters say the government is overestimating revenue, leading to inflated tax demands.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">A grocer who spoke to Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity for fear of government retribution said his daily sales did not exceed 500 birr ($21) but the government had assessed his revenue at 5,000 birr ($214).</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Businesses are taxed between 10 and 30 percent of their net profits.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Oromia, which covers much of central and southern Ethiopia, was at the center of anti-government protests in late 2015 that led to the deaths of 669 protesters across the country.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">The country has been under a state of emergency since last October.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Ethiopia, like many other sub-Saharan nations, records relatively low levels of revenue from tax. According to the World Bank, tax revenues made up 15.2 percent of Ethiopian gross domestic product in 2015.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;">Misunderstanding</span></span></div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">This week’s protests have seen towns across Oromia largely closed for business.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">In Ambo, 98 kilometers (60 miles) west of capital Addis Ababa, protesters damaged two state-owned vehicles last week but demonstrations have been otherwise peaceful.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Towns such as Holeta, 30 km (19 miles) west of Addis Ababa, appear deserted. “A coffee vendor like me has been asked to pay 8,000 birr [$344] in taxes,” one woman said.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">However, Addisu Arega, a spokesman for the regional government, said business owners had misinterpreted the new tax system.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">“People tend to mistake daily income estimation for actual tax expected of them to pay to the government,” he told Anadolu Agency.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">“Businesses are required to pay 10-30 percent of net income as tax under the new regulation and that is not too much.”</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Government officials have said that businesses in Oromia have been undertaxed for years.</div><div class="selectionShareable" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;">“There are 46,500 businesses that operate without permits,” Arega said. He claimed that tax returns from the region contributed just 17 percent to local revenue and added that the government would address the complaints filed by small businesses.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918497018260665584.post-68268367173626309092017-07-20T06:38:00.001-07:002017-07-20T06:38:55.957-07:00Ethiopian Musicians Charged With Terrorism for ‘Inciting’ Song Lyrics · Global Voices<div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Roboto, dejarip, verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px 1.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px 2.5rem 0px 4rem;"><h2 class="screen-title post-title" id="post-622049" style="clear: left; font-family: lft-etica, courrier, sans-serif; font-size: 2.25rem; line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="postmeta post-description" id="post-description" style="color: #aaaaaa; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Roboto, dejarip, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; 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<div class="wp-caption-text" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Roboto, dejarip, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; max-width: none; padding: 0.25rem 0.5rem;">Screenshot from one of Seena's viral Afan Oromo ‘resistance songs’ from the group's YouTube channel.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">Seven producers and performers of a popular YouTube music video were <a href="http://www.fanabc.com/index.php/news/item/25566-%E1%89%A0%E1%8C%8B%E1%8B%9C%E1%8C%A0%E1%8A%9D%E1%8A%90%E1%89%B5-%E1%88%99%E1%8B%AB-%E1%89%B0%E1%88%B0%E1%88%9B%E1%88%AD%E1%89%B0%E1%8B%8D-%E1%88%81%E1%8A%A8%E1%89%B5%E1%8A%93-%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%98%E1%8C%BD-%E1%8B%A8%E1%88%9A%E1%8B%AB%E1%88%B5%E1%8A%90%E1%88%B1-%E1%88%99%E1%8B%9A%E1%89%83%E1%8A%93-%E1%8C%8D%E1%8C%A5%E1%88%9E%E1%89%BD%E1%8A%95-%E1%8B%A9-%E1%89%B2-%E1%8B%A9%E1%89%A5-%E1%88%8B%E1%8B%AD-%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%B5%E1%8C%AD%E1%8A%90%E1%8B%8B%E1%88%8D-%E1%89%A0%E1%89%B0%E1%89%A3%E1%88%89-%E1%88%B0%E1%89%A3%E1%89%B5-%E1%8C%8D%E1%88%88%E1%88%B0%E1%89%A6%E1%89%BD-%E1%88%8B%E1%8B%AD-%E1%8A%A8%E1%88%B5-%E1%89%B0%E1%88%98%E1%88%B0%E1%88%A8%E1%89%B0.html" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">charged in Ethiopia</a> in late June with terrorism for producing ‘inciting’ audio-visual materials and ‘uploading them on YouTube’.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">The group members were arrested in December 2016 and were held in detention without charges until last month.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">Among those facing charges is Seenaa Solomon, a young female singer who critics say is a rising music talent to watch. The other detainees include the well-known songwriter, singer and music entrepreneur Elias Kiflu, two vocalists Gemechis Abera and Oliyad Bekele, and three dancers, Ifa Gemechu, Tamiru Keneni and Moebol Misganu.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">This marked the second arrest for dancer Moebol Misganu, who in 2014 was arrested in connection with the students protest in Ethiopia’s largest region, Oromia. He was released in 2016.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">Since December 2016, Seenaa and her colleagues have been held in Maekelawi— a prison notorious for its <a href="https://globalvoices.org/2014/10/15/journal-from-an-ethiopian-prison-the-maekelawi-ceremony/" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">torture practices</a>, recounted by past prisoners. Shortly after their arrest, online activist and diaspora satellite television director Jawar Mohamed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Jawarmd/posts/10102747535468693" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a>:</div><blockquote style="background-color: #eeeeee; background-image: url("https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.globalvoices/img/tmpl/quote-l-64.png"); background-position: 0.75rem 0.75rem; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 1.5rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding-bottom: 0.75rem; padding-left: 3rem !important; padding-right: 1.5rem !important; padding-top: 0.75rem;"><div style="padding: 0px;">The regime has intensified its war on Oromo artists. Almost all singers are either in jail, forced to flee or had gone underground. Studios have been closed and their properties confiscated. Seena Solomon and Elias Kiflu, the duo known for their powerfully dramatized resistance songs are the latest victims.</div></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">The contentious political environment in which these arrests have occurred has grown out of the Ethiopian government's plan to expand Addis Ababa, the country's capital. In 2014, the ruling EPRDF party announced plans to expand the capital into adjacent farm lands of Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest region that is primarily home to the country's largest ethnic group, the Oromo.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">When the plan led to wide-scale protests and a violent government crackdown, Afan Oromo (the region's language) musicians began to rise as a visible — and audible — source of inspiration for the opposition movement. Seenaa Solomon's group produced music videos in Afan Oromo during student protests that rocked the country from 2014-2016, creating something akin to a soundtrack for the movement.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">In their coverage of the group members’ arrests, state-run Fana Broadcasting Corporation <a href="http://www.fanabc.com/index.php/news/item/25566-%E1%89%A0%E1%8C%8B%E1%8B%9C%E1%8C%A0%E1%8A%9D%E1%8A%90%E1%89%B5-%E1%88%99%E1%8B%AB-%E1%89%B0%E1%88%B0%E1%88%9B%E1%88%AD%E1%89%B0%E1%8B%8D-%E1%88%81%E1%8A%A8%E1%89%B5%E1%8A%93-%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%98%E1%8C%BD-%E1%8B%A8%E1%88%9A%E1%8B%AB%E1%88%B5%E1%8A%90%E1%88%B1-%E1%88%99%E1%8B%9A%E1%89%83%E1%8A%93-%E1%8C%8D%E1%8C%A5%E1%88%9E%E1%89%BD%E1%8A%95-%E1%8B%A9-%E1%89%B2-%E1%8B%A9%E1%89%A5-%E1%88%8B%E1%8B%AD-%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%B5%E1%8C%AD%E1%8A%90%E1%8B%8B%E1%88%8D-%E1%89%A0%E1%89%B0%E1%89%A3%E1%88%89-%E1%88%B0%E1%89%A3%E1%89%B5-%E1%8C%8D%E1%88%88%E1%88%B0%E1%89%A6%E1%89%BD-%E1%88%8B%E1%8B%AD-%E1%8A%A8%E1%88%B5-%E1%89%B0%E1%88%98%E1%88%B0%E1%88%A8%E1%89%B0.html" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a> that Seenaa and her colleagues were producing music videos, poems and interviews with government critics in collaboration with a diaspora political organization based in Australia.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">According to their charge sheet, their audiovisual materials were “inciting” and “complimentary” of the student protesters and others who demonstrated between 2014 and 2016.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">They are not the first musicians to face such repression. In January 2016, <a href="https://globalvoices.org/2016/01/05/inside-ethiopias-self-defeating-crackdown-on-oromo-musicians/" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Hawi Tezera,</a> another Oromo singer who comforted and inspired protesters through her songs, was imprisoned. In February 2017, <a href="http://addisstandard.com/memoirs-detention-awash-7-tales-indoctrination-laughter-unknown/" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Teferi Mekonen</a>, an Oromo singer who asserted Oromo cultural identity and challenge the legitimacy of Ethiopia’s ruling party in his songs, was arrested. Hawi was later released, but Teferi's fate remains unknown.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px;">As the visibility of political singers has risen, Ethiopian authorities have intensified their crack down on musicians whom they perceive sympathize with opposition. But this has not necessarily made the musicians less visible or less popular. Resistance music continues to flourish on YouTube. Despite the fact that its performers are in jail, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9pTBdtMJnvMhy-nWv4g5Dw" style="color: #1287c8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">YouTube channel</a> for Seenaa Solomon's group maintains an impressive tally of more than 3,525,996 views.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918497018260665584.post-80560237127307419892017-06-28T01:38:00.001-07:002017-06-28T01:38:52.257-07:00Romance, War, Survival: A Correspondent Looks Back on His Experience in East Africa - The New York Times<br /><br />
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<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="278" data-total-count="278" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">To be fair to my wife, Courtenay, it was scorching that day. And as we trudged along, filthy and exhausted (our typical condition), surrounded by rebels waging a guerrilla war in one of the hottest places on earth, Ogaden Desert in Ethiopia, we realized we had run out of water.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="62" data-total-count="340" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“Don’t be a wimp,” Courtenay hissed. “Do something.”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="27" data-total-count="367" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“Like what?” I croaked.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="107" data-total-count="474" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">She stopped walking and her forehead creased, which is always a bad sign, like a horse’s ears going back.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="76" data-total-count="550" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“I don’t know!” she screamed. “But get me some [expletive] water!”</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="213" data-total-count="763" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Getting chewed out by your wife, in front of several hundred dumbstruck, armed men, while on assignment, covering a war, isn’t something you typically read about in the International pages of The New York Times.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="477" data-total-count="1240" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Or what about knifing through the Congolese rain forest on the back of a motorcycle, enveloped by giant trees bending over the path, smelling all the decaying leaves and rich, loamy soil, and then suddenly emerging into a sun-flooded grove full of thousands of white butterflies, wrapping the tree trunks, flickering in the air like falling snow, sticking to the shirtless backs of the men working in the grove, who were essentially wearing lab coats of delicate white insects?</div><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/insider/romance-war-survival-a-correspondent-looks-back-on-his-experience-in-east-africa.html#story-continues-1" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); color: #326891; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration-line: none; width: 1px;">Continue reading the main story</a></div><div class="supplemental first" data-between-flex-ads="true" data-flex-ad-adjacency="true" data-last-item-height="605" data-max-items="2" data-minimum="400" data-post-height="1350" data-pre-height="1350" data-remaining="405" id="supplemental-1" style="display: flex; flex-flow: column nowrap; justify-content: flex-start; width: 360px;"><div class="supplemental-items" data-no-ads="true" data-supplemental-order="0" style="display: flex; flex-flow: column nowrap; height: 700px; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 45px;"><br /><br />
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<figure aria-label="media" class="media photo embedded layout-large-horizontal media-100000005189767 ratio-tall" data-media-action="modal" id="media-100000005189767" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/06/27/insider/27-Insider-Afria-PIC3/27-Insider-Afria-PIC3-master675.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" role="group" style="clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: 45px 0px; max-width: none; position: relative; width: 645px;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Photo</span><div class="image" style="cursor: pointer; flex-shrink: 0; margin-bottom: 7px; position: relative;"><img alt="" class="media-viewer-candidate" data-mediaviewer-caption="Mr. Gettleman and Ms. Morris, stranded at an airport in Baidoa, Somalia, during Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia, 2007." data-mediaviewer-credit="Michael Kamber for The New York Times" data-mediaviewer-src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/06/27/insider/27-Insider-Afria-PIC3/27-Insider-Afria-PIC3-superJumbo.jpg" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/06/27/insider/27-Insider-Afria-PIC3/27-Insider-Afria-PIC3-master675.jpg" itemprop="url" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/06/27/insider/27-Insider-Afria-PIC3/27-Insider-Afria-PIC3-master675.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 645px;" /><br /><br />
<div class="media-action-overlay" style="border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid rgba(200, 200, 200, 0.8); bottom: 15px; cursor: pointer; left: 15px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in; z-index: 5;"><span class="icon sprite-icon" style="background-image: url("/assets/article/20170626-122111/images/sprite/sprite-no-repeat.svg"); background-position: -256px -135px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 38px; line-height: 0; vertical-align: middle; width: 38px;"></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption description" style="color: #666666; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1.0625rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><span class="caption-text">Mr. Gettleman and Ms. Morris, stranded at an airport in Baidoa, Somalia, during Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia, 2007.</span> <span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 1rem;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Credit</span>Michael Kamber for The New York Times</span></figcaption></figure><br /><br />
<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="428" data-total-count="3880" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">There was so much to unlearn. Newspaper writing is tight, skipping from detail to detail, avoiding contradictions. But, this doesn’t work when you’re writing a book. Instead, you need to open up, draw out scenes, write about complicated feelings. Otherwise, there are no characters to hold on to. And what happens when that character is you and the co-star your wife? Isn’t that a little too much information, as they say?</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="197" data-total-count="4077" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Perhaps. But for me, there was no separating my love for this part of the world from my love for my wife. At the end of the day, those were the two forces that made me feel less alone in the world.</div><br /><br />
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<figure aria-label="media" class="media photo embedded layout-large-horizontal media-100000005189683 ratio-tall" data-media-action="modal" id="media-100000005189683" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/06/27/insider/27-Insider-Africa-PIC1/27-Insider-Africa-PIC1-master675.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" role="group" style="clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: 45px 0px; max-width: none; position: relative; width: 645px;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Photo</span><div class="image" style="cursor: pointer; flex-shrink: 0; margin-bottom: 7px; position: relative;"><img alt="" class="media-viewer-candidate" data-mediaviewer-caption="Mr. Gettleman and Ms. Morris in the Ogaden Desert of Ethiopia with rebel forces, 2007. (The journalists were imprisoned by government agents shortly after this picture was taken.)" data-mediaviewer-credit="Vanessa Vick for The New York Times" data-mediaviewer-src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/06/27/insider/27-Insider-Africa-PIC1/27-Insider-Africa-PIC1-superJumbo.jpg" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/06/27/insider/27-Insider-Africa-PIC1/27-Insider-Africa-PIC1-master675.jpg" itemprop="url" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/06/27/insider/27-Insider-Africa-PIC1/27-Insider-Africa-PIC1-master675.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 645px;" /><br /><br />
<div class="media-action-overlay" style="border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid rgba(200, 200, 200, 0.8); bottom: 15px; cursor: pointer; left: 15px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in; z-index: 5;"><span class="icon sprite-icon" style="background-image: url("/assets/article/20170626-122111/images/sprite/sprite-no-repeat.svg"); background-position: -256px -135px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 38px; line-height: 0; vertical-align: middle; width: 38px;"></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption description" style="color: #666666; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1.0625rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><span class="caption-text">Mr. Gettleman and Ms. Morris in the Ogaden Desert of Ethiopia with rebel forces, 2007. (The journalists were imprisoned by government agents shortly after this picture was taken.)</span> <span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 1rem;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Credit</span>Vanessa Vick for The New York Times</span></figcaption><div><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 1rem;"><br /></span></div></figure><footer class="story-footer story-content" style="clear: both; margin-left: 75px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 24px; max-width: none; position: relative; width: 570px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><div class="story-meta" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"></div></footer></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918497018260665584.post-43268573291758307832016-11-16T03:11:00.001-08:002016-11-16T03:11:20.716-08:00The Oromo in Egypt: Why Have 11,000 Ethiopians Fled Their Homeland? 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Photo: Marwa Abdallah</figcaption></figure></div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1em;">A couple of weeks ago, a video that made the rounds on social media showed an Egyptian man chanting during an Oromo conference in Egypt that the Oromo will get their rights and come to power in Ethiopia.</span>The video resulted in minor disturbances in the otherwise stable Egyptian-Ethiopian relations for a few days, with a spokesman from the Ethiopian government accusing “elements” in Egypt of financing, arming and training armed groups in Ethiopia to undermine the government.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Egyptian authorities swiftly denied all such accusations, reiterating its full support and respect of Ethiopia’s sovereignty.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Although the rift was short-lived and has since been forgotten, it is a fact that the presence of the Oromo people in Egypt has been increasing as of late.The Oromo are the single largest ethno-national group in northeast Africa. In Ethiopia, they are estimated to comprise 50 million out of the country’s total population of 100 million.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Although the Oromo group is the largest among the country’s 80 ethno-national groups, it is the most oppressed group in Ethiopia and is subjected to torture and arrests from the government for demanding their rights.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Among the Oromo community, the majority is Christian, while Muslims represent an almost equal percentage of the community. Muslims, Christians and individuals of other religions living together in harmony without any discrimination within Oromia territory.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Since the Ethiopian government decided to implement the so-called “Integrated Addis Ababa Master Plan” to expand the Ethiopian capital, which is classified as one of the capital cities witnessing the greatest growth, it started dislocating the Oromo people from their farms without giving proper compensations.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Oromo demonstrations surfaced in Ginchi – about 80 kilometers southwest of the capital – in November 2015, with the Oromo protesting against the selling of the nearby Chilimongo forest, land seizures and the ongoing evictions of Oromo farmers.</div><div class="insert-post-ads" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 559px;"><figure class="op-ad" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe height="50" src="https://www.facebook.com/adnw_request?placement=1152579671422015_1157856990894283&adtype=banner320x50" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="320"></iframe></div></figure></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Human Rights Watch accused Ethiopian security forces of killing 400 people during the protests. The chaos from the protests resulted in the imposition of martial law in the country, which remains under effect until this moment.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Last August, the Oromo and Amhara groups – which, together, form 80% of Ethiopia’s population – protested against the government for marginalizing the two groups, depriving them of their rights and barring them from holding top positions in the country.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Clashes during the protest resulted in the death of seven protestors who were calling for the release of political prisoners, freedom of expression and an end to human rights violations.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The Ethiopian authorities’ violations against the Oromo people have pushed many of the latter to flee the country, with some of them seeking refuge in Egypt.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Egypt, there were 11,192 Ethiopian asylum seekers in Egypt as of September. The number increased noticeably after the clashes between the Oromo and the Ethiopian authorities.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“Of course there’s a significant increase in numbers of Ethiopian refugees,” Tarek Argaz, a media official at UNHCR, told Egyptian Streets. “Since a year and a half, the number of asylum seekers was around 5,000.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“The reason behind the increased flow of Ethiopian refugees to Egypt is that the Ethiopian authorities can’t arrest us here,” said 25-year-old Abdi Boushra, Director of the Oromo Volunteering Association School in the upscale Cairo neighborhood of Maadi.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Boushra says he fled Ethiopia after being detained for a year after being accused of being a member of the Oromo Liberation Front, an armed group that is outlawed by the Ethiopian government.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“You’ll be oppressed just for being an Oromo; I was a teacher and I was telling students how to protest peacefully against what our territory is facing and the violations the government made,” Boushra told Egyptian Streets.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“I got arrested for a year. Then I fled from Ethiopia to Sudan. I’m like many people who fled from Sudan to Egypt by smugglers through the desert. We paid around USD 300 to reach Egypt.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Boushra says he spent three months in Sudan but described his time there as a “nightmare,” saying that Sudanese authorities extradite asylum seekers back to Ethiopia.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“If we went there, we will be killed,” Boushra says. “We never imagined to live in Egypt before because of the different culture and language but we come here to feel safe.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Ashraf Melad, a lawyer and researcher on refugee affairs, described the legal situation of Ethiopian refugees in Egypt.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“The 2014 Egyptian constitution insisted to protect any asylum seeker but there’s no refugee law in Egypt. Egypt is only permitting asylum seekers to live on its land,” Melad told Egyptian Streets. “In case of committing crimes, the Minister of Foreign Affairs alerts the country of the asylum seeker who committed the crime.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“In [Sudan’s case], there’s an implicit convention between the Sudanese and Ethiopian governments of extraditing Ethiopian opposition and asylum seekers. It’s a deal which had no place in Egyptian-Ethiopian relations,” Melad added.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“The UNHCR is keen on giving each refugee his right and make sure that he deserves our help. We decreased the period for discussing the papers of people who seek asylum after they got the yellow card to live legally in Egypt from 28 months to 16 months to accept him as a refugee or not,” UNHCR’s Argaz said. “I consider this as an achievement because we have an increasing flow and a limited budget.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Noura Mohamed, a house maid who fled from the conflict in Oromia with her 14-year-old son, resorted to smugglers to help her make her way to Egypt through Sudan, like many other Ethiopians fleeing their country.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“The [situation] in Oromia was unbearable. The security comes to arrest you in your home just for being Oromo,” Mohamed told Egyptian Streets. “The government killed my father during clashes.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Mohamed says that, after working as a maid in Kuwait, she returned to Ethiopia, where she and her husband were detained for demonstrating “and for being an Oromo citizen in the first place.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Mohamed was released after three months, while her husband is currently still in prison in Ethiopia.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“I wanted to bring up my only son, so I decided to flee no matter what will happen; there’s nothing worse than what we experienced,” Mohamed says.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">However, she says that she is struggling in Egypt, where her monthly salary is EGP 1,500 but her rent is EGP 1,000 per month.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“The UNHCR gives me EGP 1,050 in annual expenses for my son but of course this isn’t enough,” she says.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">To add to Mohamed’s woes, schools are not accessible to many asylum seekers in Egypt, making it difficult for her to secure an education for her son.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“Asylum seekers have no right to [enroll] their children in Egyptian schools; there are schools for refugees but we noticed that many Oromo children evade these schools because they’re irrelevant to their identity and language,” Boushra says.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">In an attempt to address this issue, Boushra says that the community decided to establish a school to teach Oromo children the Oromo language, as well as English, Arabic and other subjects such as math and science.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">“We are working in the school as volunteers and there are no fees for children,” Boushra says, adding that the school currently has 150 students but remains free of the supervision of any educational authority.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The school was established in hopes of helping the Oromo people in Egypt maintain their identity as they work to integrate themselves into the society as a whole.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">While a number of Ethiopian refugees say they don’t face racism or ethnic discrimination in Egypt, seeking refuge in Egypt is not without its challenges.</div><br /><br />
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="wp-post-navigation" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><br /><br />
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Just this past week, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was named global ambassador for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) by the WHO, a position in which he will serve under whoever is ultimately appointed as the WHO’s director general. While Bloomberg, with his impeccable record of public health advocacy and international philanthropy, is clearly over-qualified for this role, what frightens me is the potential appointment of Adhanom as his superior. A rudimentary comparison of these two men’s records highlights the latter’s extreme unfitness for the office he seeks to assume and the absurdity of his even being considered.</div><div class="ClickFacebookLike" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; height: 30px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="middle-script" style="border: 0px; color: #bb131a; float: left; font-family: swiss_721bold_condensed; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 3px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be the first to know - <a alt="'Jpost on Facebook'" href="https://www.facebook.com/TheJerusalemPost" style="border: 0px; color: #bb131a; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="a_blank" title="Jpost in Facebook">Join our Facebook page.</a></div><div id="fb-root" style="border: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="fb-like fb_iframe_widget" data-action="like" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/TheJerusalemPost" data-layout="button_count" data-share="false" data-show-faces="false" fb-iframe-plugin-query="action=like&app_id=163414806897&container_width=767&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheJerusalemPost&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&share=false&show_faces=false" fb-xfbml-state="rendered" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: bottom; width: 79px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" frameborder="0" height="1000px" name="f33da5d4bd39ae4" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=like&app_id=163414806897&channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2Fr%2FlUqP5iIjiw6.js%3Fversion%3D42%23cb%3Df1cf7c0951efc4%26domain%3Dwww.jpost.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.jpost.com%252Ff13338e89fd3874%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=767&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheJerusalemPost&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&share=false&show_faces=false" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 79px;" title="fb:like Facebook Social Plugin" width="1000px"></iframe></span></div></div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">And this is a mere sampling of his contributions to the quality of life of the people he governed. Now that his terms as mayor have ended, he has expanded his health, well-being and justice initiatives to the broader global community and continues to work tirelessly, and to donate generously, to promote causes at the core of human flourishing.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">No model of leadership could be more divergent from Bloomberg’s than the one Ethiopian Foreign Minister Adhanom, along with his political associates, represents. The current Ethiopian government is widely recognized as a criminally organized group with high rates of human rights abuses. According to The New York Times and Human Rights Watch, tens of thousands of peaceful protesters against the government have been incarcerated, and over 700 have been killed, in recent months. The Ethiopian athlete Feyisa Lilesa made a powerful public gesture in solidarity with his oppressed countrymen at the Summer Olympics in Rio last month and was warned not to return home afterward.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">The International Committee to Protect Journalists reports that Ethiopia is among Africa’s leading jailers of journalists and has destroyed its own independent civil society. The UN Commissioner for Human Rights has requested an independent evaluation of the deaths of hundreds of peaceful civilian protesters in recent months at the hands of the Ethiopian army. However, Foreign Minister Adhanom and his government have refused external evaluation of human rights abuses complained of by large numbers of citizens.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">THE LOCAL independent Ethiopian citizens’ news agencies are reporting outside the country that there is a huge popular mobilization against the government.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">The local citizens are demonstrating peacefully, with the following complaints: that the government is killing them indiscriminately and robbing the country of power and economic resources, which are being funneled to one small, elite tribal group (known as the Tgria Peoples Liberation Front), and that their land is being sold to the Tgrian tribe, or that this tribe is selling their land to foreign investors.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">On the day that the athlete Lilesa showed his support at the Olympics in Rio, there was a demonstration planned in the capital city of Addis Ababa, but the government deployed military force to put down the peaceful citizens who organized it. Only Lilesa could make his statement, safely insulated, for the moment, from the army’s threatened violence, by a couple thousand miles.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">His fellow citizens at home were not so fortunate. Just this past week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced on national television that all military personnel would be ordered to open fire on peaceful demonstrators, which, on the first day following, resulted in dozens of civilian deaths.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Britain Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond recently warned, in a meeting with Adhanom, that Ethiopia’s “repeated failure to deliver on our basic requests” regarding an Ethiopian-born English citizen being held on death row simply because he is the opposition party leader had led him be begin “looking carefully at the bilateral relationship” between the two nations. This is yet another example of the current Ethiopian government’s pervasive corruption and lawlessness.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">As a chief agent of this depraved, bloody government body, how can Adhanom be considered as a prospective director general of the WHO? How does his candidacy reflect on the WHO itself, or, more broadly, the UN’s role as the world’s moral anchor and arbiter? Clearly, there is no just way forward but for the UN to investigate the current Ethiopian government’s reported abuses and to renounce the candidacy of its foreign minister for the position he seeks at the WHO.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">It is perhaps in the values that underlie the actions of Bloomberg and Adhanom, respectively, that the starkest contrast between these two men might be drawn. Bloomberg has often been quoted as saying, “The thing about great wealth is that you can’t take it with you,” by way of explaining why he is choosing to give so much of his private fortune away – a total of $4.3 billion thus far, including $510 million distributed by his philanthropies in 2015 alone. Adhanom, on the other hand, is a prominent member of the Ethiopian government whose former leader, Meles Zenawi (the man who appointed Adhanom to his position), had a reported net worth of over $3b., having amassed this amount entirely during his years in office.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">He took power in 1991 with an officially listed salary of $220 per month, and had no private financial resources to his name at that point. Today, all the top leaders of the TPLF are billionaires, though their nation remains an impoverished member of the Third World. Sadly, the source of these leaders’ newfound wealth is not too hard to surmise.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">I have lived, for years, under the governance of both mayor Bloomberg and Finance Minister Adhanom and can thus attest, on a personal level, to the disparate impact of their leadership on the people they’ve ruled. I know, first hand, what it has been like to live under the policies of Bloomberg’s and Adhanom’s administrations, and how each has affected the daily life of his constituency.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">More than all the facts and figures I have cited above, these real-life, on-the-ground experiences have shaped my conviction that Adhanom and his cronies must go if my native land is ever to prosper as my adopted city has in the past few decades. The WHO’s recent appointments, within the broader context of rising unrest in Ethiopia, where my family resides, and my own relatively secure life in New York, have brought this realization home to me as never before. I can only hope that the world will begin to see things in kind.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">The author, a social activist on behalf of the Ethiopian Jewish community, served in the Israel Police. He holds a master’s degree in community leadership and philanthropy from Hebrew University and is currently pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership and administration, while studying for rabbinic ordination.</span><br /><br />
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<figure class="article-main-image" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;"><img class="article-main-img" src="http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2016/8/8/28e7ff04c60e4d22a7a25068cb0fd977_18.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 745px;" width="100%" /><figcaption style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136) !important; display: initial; font-family: Georgia !important; font-size: 1.6rem !important; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2em; vertical-align: baseline;">Oromos have long complained of marginalisation by the government [Tiksa Negeri/Reuters]</figcaption></figure><br /><br />
<div class="article-body" id="article-body" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 745px;"><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Protesters in Ethiopia have attacked foreign businesses, according to the owners of a flower firm, as demonstrations in which rights groups say hundreds of people have been killed continued.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Dutch company said crowds of people in the Oromia and Amhara regions torched flower farms as they targeted businesses with perceived links to the government. Flowers are one of the country's top exports.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Esmeralda Farms statement came after weeks of escalating protests that started among the Oromo, Ethiopia's biggest ethnic group, and later spread to the Amhara, the second most populous group. </div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Both groups of protesters are demanding more political and economic rights, and say that a ruling coalition is dominated by the Tigrayan ethnic group, which makes up about 6 percent of the population.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the New York-based Human Rights Watch group, security forces have killed at least 500 people since the unrest began in November and thousands of people have been arrested.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The government has denied that violence from the security forces is "systemic" and <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/ethiopia-pledges-probe-killing-protesters-160820150733705.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">pledged to launch an independent investigation</a>, blaming opposition groups inside and outside of the country and what it called "anti-peace" elements for the chaos. </div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Esmeralda Farms said its 10 million euro ($11.1m) investment went up in smoke this week in Bahir Dar city and that several other horticulture companies were also affected.</div><hr style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-source: none; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right: 0px none; border-top-style: solid; color: #cfcfcf; height: 1px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="internallink" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/06/ethiopia-rising-narrative-oromo-protests-160620140306460.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">READ MORE: The 'Ethiopia rising' narrative and the Oromo protests </a></div><hr style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-source: none; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right: 0px none; border-top-style: solid; color: #cfcfcf; height: 1px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Remco Bergkamp, assistant manager at Esmeralda Farms in the Netherlands, told Al Jazeera that the company would probably leave Ethiopia, rather than rebuild the farm.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The situation is not stable enough to run a business. You just don’t know where the country is headed," Bergkamp told Al Jazeera.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia has seen sustained economic growth in recent years and the government has been keen to attract foreign investors, often offering attractive incentives to firms who want to do business there. </div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Government opponents, though, say the country's poorest have seen little benefit from the investment.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="imagecontainer item" data-image-url="/mritems/Images/2016/8/8/575ebd9eeaac429582ebd40c5e7ceb07_18.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><table border="0" class="image" style="background: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tbody style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" src="http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2016/8/8/575ebd9eeaac429582ebd40c5e7ceb07_18.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 745px;" /></td></tr>
<tr style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="caption" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136) !important; display: initial; font-family: Georgia !important; font-size: 1.6rem !important; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px 20px; opacity: 1 !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div></div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The government sent security forces to protect the farm. Eventually the group of protesters grew so large that the soldiers were forced to flee and the property was torched," Bergkamp said. </div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"One of our Ethiopian staff members was wounded in the attack."</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Protests in Oromia started in November last year when the government announced a plan to expand the capital - a city state - into the surrounding Oromia region.</div><hr style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-source: none; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right: 0px none; border-top-style: solid; color: #cfcfcf; height: 1px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="internallink" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2015/05/hailemariam-desalegn-democracy-election-150522074045193.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">WATCH: Prime minister tells Al Jazeera democracy is 'not only an election'</a></div><hr style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-source: none; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right: 0px none; border-top-style: solid; color: #cfcfcf; height: 1px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many Oromos saw that as a plan to remove them from fertile land. The scheme has since been dropped but the unrest spread as demonstrators called for the release of prisoners and for wider freedoms. </div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Amhara region, demonstrations began over the status of a district - Wolkait - that was once part of Amhara but was incorporated into the neighbouring Tigrayan region more than 20 years ago. Those demonstrations have also since widened.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The governing Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front <a class="internallink" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/ethiopia-observers-needed-protests-rage-160811105846673.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">last month rejected</a> a United Nations request that it send in observers, saying it alone was responsible for the security of its citizens.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The government, a close security ally of the West, is often accused of silencing dissent, even <a class="internallink" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/ethiopia-blocks-social-media-sites-exam-leak-160711183939642.html" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(250, 144, 0) !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom;" target="_self">blocking internet access </a>at times. At elections last year, it won every seat in the 547-seat parliament.</div><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.8em !important; margin-top: 3em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: rgb(142 , 142 , 142); font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source:</span> <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: rgb(33 , 33 , 33); font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Al Jazeera News and agencies</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918497018260665584.post-55719794526607032842016-08-13T10:03:00.001-07:002016-08-13T10:03:19.420-07:00America’s complicity in Ethiopia’s horrors - The Washington Post<br /><br />
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<span class="pb-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.1em; margin-top: 4px;">Women carry water back to their makeshift homes in Aydora, Ethiopia, in February. (Aida Muluneh /For The Washington Post)</span></div><div class="pb-sig-line hasnt-headshot has-0-headshots hasnt-bio is-not-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.1em; padding-bottom: 25px;"><span class="pb-timestamp" content="2016-08-12T06:23-500" itemprop="datePublished" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aaaaaa; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.1em; padding-right: 5px; white-space: nowrap;">August 12 at 6:23 PM</span></div><br /><br />
<article itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;">Regarding the Aug. 10 editorial “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/ethiopias-regime-has-killed-hundreds-why-is-the-west-still-giving-it-aid/2016/08/09/3adc4dac-5e58-11e6-9d2f-b1a3564181a1_story.html?utm_term=.8a0d20a22770" shape="rect" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;" title="www.washingtonpost.com">Ethiopia’s violent silencing</a>”:</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;">It is true that, as the editorial board put it, “the United States has long relied on Ethiopia as a partner in the fight against al-Shabab’s terrorism in Somalia and sends the country tens of millions of dollars in development assistance.” But this characterization, which substantially underestimates the amount of aid we devote to propping up this tyranny, implies that we’re at least getting something in return for turning a blind eye to its crimes against humanity.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;">In fact, when one considers that the regime’s leaders are faking their claims of economic success, covering up<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2016/02/22/history-repeats-itself-in-ethiopia/" shape="rect" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;" title="www.washingtonpost.com">the extent of the biggest famine in the country’s history</a>, secretly trading with al-Shabab, <a href="http://aa.com.tr/en/economy/ethiopia-feeling-pinch-of-illicit-financial-outflows/522507" shape="rect" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;" title="aa.com.tr">embezzling $2 billion every year</a>, enforcing policies that have killed millions of their citizens through neglect and malfeasance, and have perpetrated outright genocide, it becomes clear that we’ve gained nothing that could justify our shameful complicity in this holocaust. Our policy is a strategic failure and a moral stain that history will judge harshly.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">David Steinman</b>, New York</strong></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;">The writer is an adviser to<br /><br />
Ethiopia’s democracy movement<br />.</div></article></div></div></section>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918497018260665584.post-27327760782304487782016-08-12T23:39:00.001-07:002016-08-12T23:39:53.174-07:00‘A Generation Is Protesting’ in Ethiopia, Long a U.S. Ally - The New York Times<br /><br />
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<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="27" data-total-count="27" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Is <a class="meta-loc" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ethiopia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" style="color: #326891;" title="More news and information about Ethiopia.">Ethiopia</a> about to crack?</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="341" data-total-count="368" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">For the last decade, it has been one of Africa’s most stable nations, a solid<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/africa/obama-calls-ethiopian-government-democratically-elected.html" style="color: #326891;">Western ally</a> with a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/world/africa/ethiopia-an-african-lion-aspires-to-middle-income-by-2025.html" style="color: #326891;">fast-growing economy</a>. But in recent months, antigovernment protests have convulsed the country, spreading into more and more areas. In the last week alone, thousands of people stormed into the streets, demanding fundamental political change.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="453" data-total-count="821" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">The government’s response, according to human rights groups, was ruthless. Witnesses said that police officers shot and killed scores of unarmed demonstrators. Videos circulating from protests thought to be from late last year or earlier this year show security officers whipping young people with sticks as they are <a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/06/16/such-brutal-crackdown/killings-and-arrests-response-ethiopias-oromo-protests" style="color: #326891;">forced to perform handstands against a wall</a>. The top <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/united_nations/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #326891;" title="More articles about the United Nations.">United Nations</a> human rights official is now calling for a thorough investigation.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="219" data-total-count="1040" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“It was always difficult holding this country together, and moving forward, it will be even harder,” said Rashid Abdi, the Horn of Africa project director for the International Crisis Group, a research organization.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="324" data-total-count="1364" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Ethiopia is the second most populous nation in Africa, after Nigeria, and its stability is cherished by the West. American military and intelligence services work closely with the Ethiopians to combat terrorist threats across the region, especially in Somalia, and few if any countries in Africa receive as much Western aid.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="534" data-total-count="1898" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Ethiopia’s economy has been expanding at an impressive clip. Its infrastructure has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/world/dam-rising-in-ethiopia-stirs-hope-and-tension.html" style="color: #326891;">improved drastically </a>— there is even a new commuter train in the capital, Addis Ababa. And its streets are typically quiet, safe and clean. Though Ethiopia has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/world/africa/21ethiopia.html" style="color: #326891;">hardly been a paragon of democracy</a> — human rights groups have constantly cited <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/world/africa/22ethiopia.html" style="color: #326891;">the government’s repressiveness</a> — opposition within the country had been limited, with dissidents effectively silenced. Many have been exiled, jailed, killed or driven to the far reaches of the desert.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="25" data-total-count="1923" id="story-continues-1" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">But that may be changing.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="229" data-total-count="2152" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“If you suffocate people and they don’t have any other options but to protest, it breaks out,” said Seyoum Teshome, a university lecturer in central Ethiopia. “The whole youth is protesting. A generation is protesting.”</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="424" data-total-count="2576" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">The complaints are many, covering everything from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/world/africa/ethiopia-addis-ababa-urban-plan-oromia.html" style="color: #326891;">land use</a> to the governing coalition’s stranglehold on power. After a widely criticized election last year, the governing party and its allies got the last seat the opposition had held and now control <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/world/africa/government-in-ethiopia-is-on-track-to-win-with-100-of-vote.html" style="color: #326891;">100 percent of Parliament</a>. At the same time, tensions are rising along the border with Eritrea; a battle along that jagged, disputed line claimed hundreds of lives in June.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="209" data-total-count="2785" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Analysts fear that separatist groups that had been more or less vanquished in recent years, like the Oromo Liberation Front or the Ogaden National Liberation Front, may try to exploit the turbulence and rearm.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="109" data-total-count="2894" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Several factors explain why bitter feelings, after years of simmering beneath the surface, are exploding now.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="46" data-total-count="2940" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">The first is seemingly innocuous: smartphones.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="456" data-total-count="3396" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Only in the last couple of years have large numbers of Ethiopians been able to communicate using social media as cheaper smartphones became common and internet service improves. Even when the government shuts down access to Facebook and Twitter, as it frequently does, especially during protests, many people are still able to communicate via internet proxies that mask where they are. Several young Ethiopians said this was how they gathered for protests.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="324" data-total-count="3720" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Second, there is more solidarity between Oromos and Amharas, Ethiopia’s two largest ethnic groups. Oromos and Amharas are not natural allies. For eons, Amharas from Ethiopia’s predominantly Christian highlands flourished in politics and business, exploiting the Oromos, many of whom are Muslim and live in lowland areas.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="29" data-total-count="3749" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">But that is changing as well.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="95" data-total-count="3844" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“We are on the way to coordinate under one umbrella,” said Mulatu Gemechu, an Oromo leader.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="285" data-total-count="4129" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">The biggest protests have been in Amhara and Oromo areas. Many Amharas and Oromos feel Ethiopia is unfairly dominated by members of the Tigrayan ethnic group, which makes up about 6 percent of the population and dominates the military, the intelligence services, commerce and politics.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="63" data-total-count="4192" id="story-continues-2" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">The third reason behind the unrest is the loss of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/world/africa/zenawi-exemplified-conflict-between-american-interests-and-ideals.html?_r=0" style="color: #326891;">Meles Zenawi</a>.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="337" data-total-count="4529" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Mr. Meles, a former rebel leader, was Ethiopia’s prime minister for 17 years, until his death from an undisclosed illness in 2012. He was considered a tactical genius, a man who could see around corners. Analysts say he was especially adept at detecting early signals of discontent and using emissaries to massage and defang opponents.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="87" data-total-count="4616" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“The current regime lacks that ground savvy,” Mr. Abdi, the conflict analyst, said.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="310" data-total-count="4926" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, was plucked from relative obscurity to fill Mr. Meles’s shoes. Unlike Mr. Meles, who came from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, Mr. Hailemariam is a southerner. Analysts say he does not have the trust of the Tigrayan-controlled security services.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="367" data-total-count="5293" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">The result, many fear, is more bloodshed. The last time Ethiopia experienced such turmoil was in 2005, after thousands protested over what analysts have said appeared to be an election the government bungled and then stole. In the ensuing crackdown, many protesters were killed, though fewer than in recent months, and that period of unrest passed relatively quickly.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="314" data-total-count="5607" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Development experts have praised Ethiopia’s leaders for visionary infrastructure planning, such as the new commuter train, and measurable strides in fighting poverty. But clearly that has not stopped the internal resentment of Ethiopia’s government from intensifying. And it is taking a dangerous ethnic shape.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="155" data-total-count="5762" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Last month, protesters in Gondar, an Amhara town, attacked businesses owned by Tigrayans, and anti-Tigrayan hatred is becoming more common in social media.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="249" data-total-count="6011" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Analysts say the protests are putting the United States and other Western allies in an awkward position. The American government has used Ethiopia as a base for drone flights over neighboring Somalia, though it recently said it had closed that base.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="123" data-total-count="6134" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">While the West clearly wants to support democracy, it also does not want its ally in an already volatile region to crumble.</div><div class="flex-candidate"></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-node-uid="1" data-para-count="62" data-total-count="6196" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">“That,” Mr. Abdi said, “is a very tight rope to walk.”</div><div><br /></div><br /><br />
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<div class="story-body__introduction" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nearly 100 people were killed in the weekend's protests in Ethiopia as demonstrators clashed with security forces in different parts of the country, Amnesty International says.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The rights group says the most deadly incident happened in Bahir Dar, where at least 30 people died on Sunday.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The authorities have said seven died in Bahir Dar and that security forces were reacting to violence from protesters.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There has been an unprecedented wave of protests in Ethiopia in recent months.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People in the Oromo and Amhara regions have been complaining about political and economic marginalisation.</div><ul class="story-body__unordered-list" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="story-body__list-item" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; list-style: square outside; margin: 18px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36940906" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is behind Ethiopia's wave of protests?</a></li>
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</ul><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/08/ethiopia-dozens-killed-as-police-use-excessive-force-against-peaceful-protesters/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Amnesty says that 67 people died</a> when "security forces fired live bullets at peaceful protesters" in different towns and cities in the Oromo region over the weekend.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There were clashes between security forces and protesters on Sunday in Bahir Dar, the Amhara regional capital.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Opposition activists have given similar figures for the number of people killed.</div><br /><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The government has blamed "nearby and distant foreign enemies and social media activists" for defying warnings about holding unauthorised protests, the government-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) reports.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The authorities have said that the demonstrators were destroying government and private property and "inflicting deaths on innocent citizens" and arrests were made as people were trying to spread the violence, FBC adds.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The United States, a close ally of the government, said it was "deeply concerned" by the violence and said the people's rights to demonstrate should be respected.</div><br /><br />
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Ethiopian troops on Saturday clashed with South Sudanese tribal militiamen along the border between the countries, killing dozens of fighters who allegedly had carried out a deadly raid into Ethiopia the day before.</div>
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The fighters, members of South Sudan’s Murle tribe, launched the attack on the rival Nuer tribe in Ethiopia’s western region of Gambella on Friday, killing 140 people and abducting dozens, including children, according to Ethiopia’s Communications MinisterGetachew Reda. Ethiopian troops responded to the raid on Saturday, killing at least 60 of the attackers, the minister said.</div>
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It was the worst violence in the border region since the South Sudan tribal conflict erupted more than two years ago, raising concern that it might spill over into Ethiopia and threaten the stability of one of Africa’s most promising economies.</div>
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The Murle tribesmen are closely allied with South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s ethnic Dinka people.</div>
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South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei denied any state involvement in the clashes. “We don’t condone such acts,” Mr. Makuei said. “We are ready to cooperate with our Ethiopian brothers to apprehend the perpetrators, but we remain a sovereign nation.”</div>
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“Our soldiers are pursuing the attackers; we reserve the right to follow them up inside South Sudan,” Mr. Reda told The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Reda said Ethiopia would act to protect its “people and territorial integrity.” He declined to say whether Ethiopian troops had entered South Sudan in pursuit of the attackers.</div>
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Both tribes live in South Sudan’s oil-rich Jonglei and Upper Nile states, which have seen some of the heaviest combat in the two-year conflict. The fighting has killed more than 50,000 people and displaced nearly 2.5 million.</div>
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Ethiopia’s Gambella region hosts about 280,000 South Sudanese refugees, most of them from the Nuer tribe, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The Murle and Nuer tribes have a long history of antagonism and have raided each other’s territory for generations over cattle, grazing lands and water rights.</div>
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At the time of the attack this weekend, rebel leader Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer, was in the town of Gambella, a rebel spokesman said, and he is expected to fly to Juba on Monday to become vice president in a transitional South Sudan government whose formation aims to end the conflict.</div>
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An aid official said the attackers targeted food and cattle. The conflict in South Sudan which has raged on despite several cease-fire deals has worsened the food crisis in the country leaving nearly five million people food insecure according to U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.</div>
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<div class="story-body__introduction" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia says armed men have killed 140 people near its border with South Sudan and abducted at least 39 children.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia's Communications Minister Getachew Reda said the attackers were members of South Sudan's Murle tribe.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He said security forces were chasing the attackers and had killed 60 so far.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia is hosting thousands of South Sudanese refugees who fled the 2013 clashes that began when President Salva Kiir sacked his deputy Riek Machar, accusing him of plotting a coup.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Machar denied the charges, but then mobilised a rebel force to fight the government. He is due to return to the capital Juba to form a transitional government as part of a peace deal.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Reda told the BBC the attackers were not thought to have any links to the South Sudanese government or rebels.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia's Gambella province, where the raid took place, has a history of conflict between communities and a sizable Nuer population, Mr Machar's ethnic group.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Murle have previously been accused of carrying out cattle raids and stealing children to raise as their own.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918497018260665584.post-31270230389906131932015-12-19T09:38:00.001-08:002015-12-19T09:38:12.620-08:00At least 75 killed in Ethiopia protests: HRW - Yahoo News<div class="credit-bar clearfix large-sharebtns" id="yui_3_18_1_1_1450546615263_1112" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px; padding: 10px 10px 30px; zoom: 1;"><div class="interest-bar" style="margin-bottom: 5px; overflow: hidden; padding-right: 1px;"><div class="action-bar"><div class="action-bar-wrapper" style="float: none; height: 45px; margin-top: 30px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="yom-share-btns-container light" id="mediacontentsharebuttons-light" style="border: 0px; float: left; padding: 0px;"><div class="share-btns-int-container" style="display: table-cell; float: left; height: 45px; padding-left: 0px; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="share-btns" role="menu" style="display: table; width: 233px;"><ul style="float: right; height: 45px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="share-btn tumblr" style="display: inline-block; list-style: none; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;"><span class="Icon btn-icon btn-tumblr small" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(60, 89, 119); border: 1px solid transparent; color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: "yglyphs"; font-size: 18px; height: 18px; line-height: 45px; padding: 0px 17px 25px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: top; width: 20px; zoom: 1;"></span></li>
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<div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">A burnt-out truck thought to have been set on fire by protesters pictured outside the village of Wol …</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Several people described seeing security forces in the town of Walliso, 100 kilometres (60 miles) southwest of Addis Ababa, shoot into crowds of protesters in December, leaving bodies lying in the street."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">HRW also said "numerous witnesses" described how "security forces beat and arrested protesters, often directly from their homes at night."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Pictures have appeared on social media, apparently showing bloodied protestors and armed police firing tear gas at student demonstrators.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The Ethiopian government's response to the Oromia protests has resulted in scores dead and a rapidly rising risk of greater bloodshed," HRW's Leslie Lefkow said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The government's labelling of largely peaceful protesters as 'terrorists' and deploying military forces is a very dangerous escalation of this volatile situation."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">With at least 27 million people, Oromia is the most populous of the country's federal states and has its own language, Oromo, distinct from Ethiopia's official Amharic language.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">- US 'deeply concerned' -</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In a statement issued on Saturday, which did not directly refer to the HRW figures, Washington expressed grave concern over the unrest.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The United States is deeply concerned by the recent clashes in the Oromia region of Ethiopia that reportedly have resulted in the deaths of numerous protestors," said the State Department.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We urge the government of Ethiopia to permit peaceful protest and commit to a constructive dialogue to address legitimate grievances," it said, also urging protesters "to refrain from violence and to be open to dialogue."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Writing on Twitter on Friday, Washington's UN envoy Samantha Power spoke of "concerning rhetoric" from Ethiopia's prime minister, insisting the government "must use restraint" in its response to the Oromo protests.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Britain's Foreign Office also expressed concern over the protests in a statement issued on Friday, noting that some had "turned violent, resulting in casualties."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There have been heavy clashes including gunfire between protesters and security forces" on December 17, it said, warning Britons against all but essential travel to western and southwestern parts of Oromia.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Some foreign-owned commercial farms have been "looted and destroyed" in the protests near Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) southeast of Addis Ababa, HRW said.</div><div id="yui_3_18_1_1_1450546615263_1100" style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;">HRW said the protests -- and bloody crackdown -- echoed protests in April and May 2014 when police were accused of opening fire and killing "dozens" of protestors. The government said eight people died in the 2014 unrest.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918497018260665584.post-23858723696491544992015-10-28T01:12:00.001-07:002015-10-28T01:12:57.229-07:00British Father On Death Row In Ethiopia Tells UK: "Bury Me In England" - BuzzFeed News<br /><br />
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<div data-print="body" rel:gt_cat="[ttp]:content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="bf_dom c suplist_article suplist_list_show ab_test_mp4--hide" data-bfa="@l:Subbuzz;" id="buzz_sub_buzz" rel:ab_test="mp4s_replacing_animated_gifs" rel:bf_bucket="abtest" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; float: none; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="buzz_superlist_item buzz-superlist-item buzz_superlist_item_image buzz-superlist-item-image buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit " id="superlist_4061365_7199059" rel:buzz_num="1" style="border: none; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 18px 0px; position: relative;"><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 0; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" class="bf_dom" src="http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-10/27/4/enhanced/webdr11/enhanced-5338-1445933741-1.jpg" height="469" rel:bf_bucket="progload" rel:bf_image_src="http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-10/27/4/enhanced/webdr11/enhanced-5338-1445933741-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" width="625" /></div><div class="article_caption_w_attr" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; padding: 3px 0px 0px;"><span class="sub_buzz_desc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Andargachew Tsege with his wife Yemi and their three children. </span><span class="sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_w_caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; padding: 3px 0px 20px;">Supplied</span></div></div><div class="buzz_superlist_item buzz-superlist-item buzz_superlist_item_text buzz-superlist-item-text buzz_superlist_item_wide " id="superlist_4061365_7199072" rel:buzz_num="2" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; position: relative;"><div class="sub_buzz_desc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">A British man currently on death row in Ethiopia has asked the UK ambassador to make sure that he is buried in England during a meeting that highlighted serious concerns over the handling of his case and his treatment in prison.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 12px;">BuzzFeed News has seen a redacted copy of notes written by ambassador Greg Dorey of his meeting with Andargachew Tsege, 59, at Kality prison near Addis Ababa on 15 October.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 12px;">Tsege, a father of three from north London, was <a href="http://www.reprieve.org.uk/case-study/andargachew-tsege/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0077ee; text-decoration: none;">snatched by Ethiopian security forces</a> at an airport in Yemen last June while he was waiting for a flight to Eritrea. He was taken to Ethiopia having been sentenced to death in his absence for allegedly plotting a coup and planning to kill Ethiopian officials, allegations he denies.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 12px;">Campaigners <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2925086/UK-diplomats-clash-British-man-death-row-Ethiopia-Officials-fury-Foreign-Secretary-claims-couldn-t-time-help-father-three-facing-execution.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0077ee; text-decoration: none;">claim the real reason</a> he faces execution is that he fell out with former prime minister Meles Zenawi after exposing government corruption.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 12px;">Dorey writes in his notes that Tsege told him his status in Kality Prison was odd, “since he had no ‘warrant number’ (i.e. prisoner number), so he was ‘not even in the system’”.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 12px;">Nothing had been said to Tsege about charges against him, Dorey writes, and so a formal charge sheet had been demanded. “He had only heard on radio, TV and the internet about previous charges against him,” Dorey says, “and had the right to know why he was in prison.”</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 12px;">The notes continue: “At this point he became a little more emotional. He said he would ‘take his own measures … I will not allow myself to be debased and dehumanised’ (no further details).”</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 12px;">The ambassador’s notes conclude:</div><blockquote style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); border-left-color: rgb(225, 232, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 5px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 20px 12px 20px 18px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 20px; quotes: none; width: auto;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px;">I asked if he had messages for the family. He said “Hello, be brave”. He did not want “complications”. Finally, he asked us to ensure he was “buried in England” – it was important for children to know where their parent/s ended up. I said I would come and see him in a month. He commented that I had said that last time and then had been unable to visit until now, but he fully realised that was not my fault. I said I had been given a high-level promise that a visit in a month would be possible.</div></blockquote></div><div class="buzz_superlist_item buzz-superlist-item buzz_superlist_item_grid_row buzz-superlist-item-grid_row buzz_superlist_item_wide no_caption " id="superlist_4061365_7199058" rel:buzz_num="3" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; position: relative;"><div class="grid_row two_pl grid_height_m" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; position: relative; width: 625px;"><div class="grid_cell cell_1" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; width: 205px;"><div class="grid_cell_image_wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img src="http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-10/27/4/enhanced/webdr12/grid-cell-19993-1445933725-2.jpg" height="307" rel:bf_image_src="http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-10/27/4/enhanced/webdr12/grid-cell-19993-1445933725-2.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" width="203" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_grid_cell_caption" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="sub_buzz_grid_source_via" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 15px; padding: 3px 0px 0px;">Supplied</div></div></div><div class="grid_cell cell_2" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; margin-left: 5px; width: 415px;"><div class="grid_cell_image_wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img src="http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-10/27/4/enhanced/webdr12/grid-cell-19993-1445933727-7.jpg" height="307" rel:bf_image_src="http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-10/27/4/enhanced/webdr12/grid-cell-19993-1445933727-7.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" width="412" /></div><div class="sub_buzz_grid_cell_caption" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="sub_buzz_grid_source_via" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 15px; padding: 3px 0px 0px;">Supplied</div></div></div><div class="sub_buzz_content" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 0; padding: 0px 0px 3px; position: relative;"></div></div><div class="grid_clear" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-size: 1px; line-height: 12px;"></div></div><div class="buzz_superlist_item buzz-superlist-item buzz_superlist_item_text buzz-superlist-item-text buzz_superlist_item_wide " id="superlist_4061365_7199209" rel:buzz_num="4" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; position: relative;"><div class="sub_buzz_desc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">Tsege told the ambassador he was sleeping in a small cell with three other people and had not been outside the prison at any point. He said he was occasionally being visited by his 90-year-old father and his stepmother.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 12px;">He said he picked up news from listening to other inmates’ TVs, and expressed surprise that his MP, Jeremy Corbyn, was now leader of the Labour party – “interesting, obviously the party is moving to the Left”.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 12px;">He spoke at length to the ambassador about his political views. Dorey’s notes read:</div><blockquote style="background: rgb(252, 252, 252); border-left-color: rgb(225, 232, 237); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 5px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 20px 12px 20px 18px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 20px; quotes: none; width: auto;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">He [said he was] was a prisoner of political masters but they were not applying the relevant regulations properly to him. Yet he was one of their friendliest critics, who understood them better than anyone and they shouldn’t demean him. He had served the regime in the past whole-heartedly and left it on principle. Some problems had since been resolved, others were still real…</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;">When they had beaten and insulted him before in 2005 he had had no reason to go into opposition politics and was not even a member of the opposition – nor had he supported them. And actually Meles himself had said Ethiopia needed a “good opposition”. He had only spoken about politics by peaceful means.</div></blockquote></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918497018260665584.post-44139681626674109772015-10-26T01:43:00.001-07:002015-10-26T01:43:47.051-07:00Ethiopia opposition groups say they are uniting for change - US News<br /><br />
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